is music poetry

i think vanilla twilight is poetry because it not only has most potetic terms it show the emotion expressed through the lyrics.

i think the chorous of shots makes it not poetry because its too repettitive its just the same word 32 times and everybody twice and in my point of view that is not poetry.

#1. i think that it depends on what is said and how its put.

#2. all of the terms are expressed in rap/hip hop

#3. i am a context crituque because if the content dosen't make sense or it has no meaning, generaly i dont like it. every word in music and a poem needs to fit into the overall meaning of the peice. every word has to have value.

a clean well lighted place

Part 1.

A well lighted place is significant because the old man needs a place to drink with dignity. Instead of going to a bar he went to a clean cafe. The older waiter agrees seeing as he is getting old as well. The older waiter feels that he and the old man have more pride thus deserve a clean and well lighted place to get drunk.

I think the characters are nameless because Hemingway feels it would be easier for his audience to relate to any of the characters. By making them nameless and with very little personality it is easier to mold the character a little to fit any person. For example I can relate to the older waiter, I don't drink but I fit his patient, easy-going, and laid back personality. I also fit the old man and his feel for nature in all its grace and him just wanting to be alone to enjoy it with a certain respect in a clean and well lighted place.

They both are experiencing old age and have respect for the night. They are very patient and like to drink but with dignity. The waiter understands how the older man comes to a nice place to drink and not a bar because he is going through the same thing. The younger waiter is there to show the contrast between younger people and older people. They are significantly different because the younger man wants the old man to leave and is very impatient where the older waiter wants him to stay.

Exposition:
The old man is sitting at the cafe late at night drinking.

Complication:
The younger waiter wants him to leave so he can go home.

Crisis decision:
The older waiter tries to explain to the younger one the old man's point of view.

Climax:
The old man leaves and the older waiter closes up and talks to himself while walking to a bar.


Resolution:
The older waiter gets a drink and leaves.

Because of the older waiter’s consistent feelings of solitary with the old man. He understands and defends him because he too prefers a clean, well-lighted cafe to a bar or bodega.


Part 2

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) as shown in his short story he was a drinker but he also participated in ww1. He was very fond of Cuba and south Florida, in the book the older and younger waiter were of Spanish descent. Like the old man Hemingway has been married and is very wealthy.



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“Sonny’s Blues” - Research Assignment

the setting of Sonny's Blues was harlem nyc between the 50's and 60's. you can infer that sonny is affected by this because he writes from jail, he wants to enlist in the army, and he later on plays in a jazz club. the narrator also describes his encounters with both drugs and crime and some attempts to avoid them.

The racist atmosphere of the pre-1950s military was at best inhospitable and at worst lethal to black soldiers. In 1953, a rash of lynching’s of blacks in uniform finally spurred President Truman into action to desegregate the military.

African Americans had had a long and distinguished record of volunteering for military combat, from the Revolutionary War through the Korean War. But their patriotic efforts were often spurned by white officers. African American men had tried to prove their patriotism and to improve their standard of living by serving in the U.S. military. Hoping that service to their country would prove them worthy of the same respect and opportunities accorded to whites, black men readily enlisted in the military.


Stormy Blues by Billie Holiday
I've been down so long That down don't worry me
I've been down so long that down don't worry me
I just sit and wonder it rains in here
It's storming on the sea
When it rains in here
It's storming on the sea
Every time I come here Everything happens to me
I lose my head
I lose my money
Feel like I'm almost dead

i picked this because sonny eels that his life is already so bad that nothing can help him. he feels every time he tries to be better than what he is he was and will be rejected.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a new form of jazz music was being developed. The style, called “bebop,” “bop,” or later, “hard bop,” centered on a very complex and abstract type of soloing during familiar tunes. Often in the solo, only the chords of the original melody would remain the same, and the tune would bear no resemblance to more traditional versions. The soloist would also play at blistering speeds. The earliest bebop musicians were trumpet players Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, pianist Thelonious Monk, and saxophonist Charlie Parker. Parker is often credited as the originator of the genre.

despite his brother's disdain for his lifestyle and musical endeavors, sonny near the end follows his passion for jazz music

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